Pair reunited after 53 years

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Pair reunited after 53 years

A 68-year-old woman and her 86-year- old mother cried with joy as they were reunited after more than half a century with the help of the Hong Kong Red Cross.Priscilla Wu Yeung Hing-chun, who was sent to a temple in Kowloon City when she was just four months old, started searching for her birth mother Tsang Ying in 2006 after her adoptive mother died. Wu brought Tsang a bouquet of flowers to thank...

A 68-year-old woman and her 86-year- old mother cried with joy as they were reunited after more than half a century with the help of the Hong Kong Red Cross.

Priscilla Wu Yeung Hing-chun, who was sent to a temple in Kowloon City when she was just four months old, started searching for her birth mother Tsang Ying in 2006 after her adoptive mother died.

Wu brought Tsang a bouquet of flowers to thank her ahead of Mother's Day for giving birth to her, as the two met up last Monday for the first time in 53 years.

"I have known since I was little that I was given up by my birth mother due to her financial difficulties but I stopped thinking about her at some point, as my adoptive mother treated me very well," Wu said.

Wu was aged 15 when she first met her birth mother but the visit did not turn out well.

"A woman came to me and told me that she was my birth mother," Wu said.

"I didn't know what to do. The only thought that came to me was that the strange woman and I looked really alike."